Call: Interreg
Central Europe

The Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme’s overall objective is to cooperate beyond borders in central Europe to make
cities and regions better places to live and work. The Programme focuses specifically on innovation, low-carbon economy, environment,
culture and transport. The programme will build regional capacities following an integrated bottom-up approach involving and
coordinating relevant actors from all governance levels. In order to achieve these objectives, the Programme is divided into
the following Priority Axes (PA):

PA1 - Cooperating on innovation to make Central Europe more competitive

The Interreg Central Europe Programme builds
on four priorities of particular relevance to central Europe. These are further broken down to 10 specific objectives that
respond to the programme area’s challenges:

Priority 1: Cooperating on innovation
to make CENTRAL EUROPE more competitive

International
organisations acting under the national law of any CENTRAL EUROPE Member State or, with restrictions, under international
law.

Project Partner

Yes

Project
Partner Details

Projects must involve in the partnership:

at least three financing partners,

from
at least three countries and

being at least two of the partners located in CENTRAL EUROPE regions.

Applicants
located outside the programme area but within the EU can also apply for funding as project partners.

The size of
the partnership should reflect the scope of the project and remain manageable. Therefore, the recommended maximum size of
a partnership should not exceed 12 partners.

Recurring Call

No

Project duration max

36 months

Further info

The recommended project duration is from 24 to a maximum of 36 months, taking into account that the latest possible end
date for a project is 31 December 2021.The project shall start its implementation within two months from thedate
of signature of the subsidy contract.

Type of Funding

Grant

Financial details

The budget allocated to the third call for proposals is of around 60
million € of the ERDF.It is recommended that projects should have a total budget in the range of 1 to 5 million €. In
exceptional cases, smaller or larger projects can be supported.The following co-financing rates shall apply: